About the Book: Mystic Fire: the Life of Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo was one of the most extraordinary figures to appear on the
historical stage in the early twentieth century. He is remembered today
primarily as a revolutionary and a yogi, but Aurobindo Ghose refused to be
circumscribed by such boundaries.
Aurobindo was taken at an early age to England. Completely cut off from all
things Indian, he received the perfect English education at St. Pauls School and
Cambridge University. Destined for a career in the Indian Civil Service, he
cracked the entrance examination but declined to join. Returning home after a
14-year absence, while